Geezer Query - Who are most distant past sports legends you've actually seen play in the flesh?

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Oh what the heck. Watched on TV counts too.

My list

• Willie Mays (The 'Say Hey' Kid)
  
• Elgin Baylor
  
• Oscar Robinson
  
• Jerry West (Zeke from Cabin Creek)
  
• Wilt Chamberlain (The Dipper [He hated The Stilt])
  
• Rosey Grier
  
• Pete Maravich
  
• Connie Hawkins
  
• Nate Archibald
  
• Walt Frazier
  
• The Harlem Golbetrotters (Meadow Lark Lemon, Curly Neal vintage)
  
• Calvin Murphy (All 5'9" of him, and Texas State Men's Baton Twirling Champion)
  
• Earl "The Pearl" Monroe [Fall back baby!)
  
• Rollie Fingers
  
• John Havlicek
  
• Kareem Abduhl-Jabbar (nee Lew Alcindor for his first two years with the Milwaukee Bucks)
  
• Len Dawson
  
• Jan Stenerud
  
• Charles Barkley
  
• Magic Johnson
  
• Larry Bird
  
  That's all I can pluck from the fog of time right now :biggrin: